Staff Software Engineer at Change.org

I have a Masters in Public Administration (MPA) and Bachelors of Science in Computer Science from California State University Northridge (CSUN). I don't do full stack software engineering. I was previously a Senior Engineer at Upworthy where I did Ruby on Rails engineering. I joined Upworthy in January 2013 when the company was only 11 months old and was hired as the 4th engineer. In 2012 I was an Engineer on the Tech Team at Obama for America. We helped re-elect the President of the United States. Prior to OFA I worked at Code for America as the Technical Lead. I was also an inaugural 2011 Code for America Fellow. Code for America is a non profit technology startup based in San Francisco that brings top web professionals to give a year of service building web 2.0 apps for local governments. At Code for America I have worked on many open source projects including creating Ruby Gems and ArcGIS applications. Prior to Code for America I worked for the City of Santa Clarita as a Senior Information Technology Analyst in the division of Technology Services. I have over 5+ years of experience developing local government applications and management in the Information Technology sector of local government. I began working at the City of Santa Clarita as an Application Development Contractor and moved with increasing responsibility each year from IT Specialist, IT Analyst and Senior IT Analyst. I have a wide variety of experience developing applications for local government. This includes land use management software, permitting software, ArcGIS mapping and various other local government applications. I am very active in the Government 2.0 space and follow all trends and practices Specialties: Ruby on Rails, Open Source Software, Project Management, Esri ArcGIS, ArcGIS Flex API, ArcGIS Silverlight API, ArcGIS Javascript API, Social Media, HTML, CSS